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Defender Data Protect/Replica

    Enhance security for administrators when accessing the GUI

    This is a list of ideas that can enhance/control login security - Grant IP access for cluster admins, basically allow from spesific ip ranges if user is member of role = admin, or .  This is important where DP interface is open to public, but...
    1 day ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Submitted

    Enable Full Export and Correlation of Affected Files and Alerts in DMS Anti-Ransomware UI

    Currently, when an anomaly or ransomware detection event occurs within the DMS Security Anti-Ransomware interface, the “Affected Files” page does not provide a supported mechanism to export or download the complete list of affected files. At this ...
    4 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Submitted

    S3 bucket backup in Defender Data Protect urgently needs optimization to be usable in an environment with multiple buckets on the same endpoint.

    Defender Data Protect allows you to add an S3-compatible source to back up S3 buckets; however, the implementation is flawed and hinders the backup process in several ways. For instance, an endpoint can only be added once with a single user; it is...
    3 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Submitted

    one or few click retry of failed objects on protection group

    Makes day-to-day administration of backups easier and increase overall success rate of backups
    about 2 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Submitted

    Improve display and reporting for SAN based backups of IBM Flash arrays

    The SAN based backup identifies a disk pool to be protected. The disk pool consists of several disk volumes (18 in our case). Currently the UI shows the backup of this in a protection group and all 18 volumes are backed up as a part of the protect...
    2 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Submitted

    Alert on increasing garbage data and/or failed or ineffectual garbage collection

    The Defender Data Protect version 7.3.1 will send alerts for pipelines that fail to complete, but the underlying cause of increased garbage and/or ineffectual garbage collection does not generate an alert. This means that the alerts that do trigge...
    2 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 1 Submitted

    Provide incremental backup capabilities from DDP to S3 Glacier target

    Idea: Enable Defender Data Protect (DDP) to perform incremental backups directly to S3 Glacier-based tape storage targets such as IBM Storage Protect (SP) S3 storage agent and IBM Deep Archive on Diamondback. Business Use Case: While Defender Data...
    about 1 year ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Submitted

    Add the ability to select Interface group for AIX agent

    Currently there is no way to implicitly select a backup interface for a client. This feature is available for Linux agent, but with no support for AIX. For some host systems it would be good addition to ensure the data flow to use the correct inte...
    about 1 month ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Submitted

    Allow sources, policies, protection groups, etc. to be organized in a manner other than source type.

    Currently, as sources are defined, the way the information is displayed is by the type of source. So, all vSphere, SAN, SQL sources are displayed with the same type. This makes it difficult to find sources in a way meaningful to the operator. Idea...
    7 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 1 Submitted

    Add the option to delete a description previously created

    Add the option to delete a description that was previously created when selecting an alert to resolve, since some descriptions may no longer apply or simply need to be removed. It would be great to also have the ability to delete any description t...
    6 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Submitted

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